Legislative News

Yesterday was the last day that Senators and Representatives can file their bills in the Texas Legislature. All told, over 5,300 House bills, plus several hundred resolutions, and some 2,600 Senate bills, and several hundred resolutions have been...

86 days to go and one week left to file new bills in the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate.

Finally, all committees have been named and they are cooking. This week, the subcommittees of the House Committee on Appropriations began meeting, and Sierra Club was there to testify.

This week, the Sierra Club hit the Capitol running. From providing written and oral testimony to the Senate Committee on Finance on the state’s budget, to volunteers scouring the halls passing out factsheets on our legislative solutions, to...

We have hit the 30 day mark. The Legislature has met, has been filing bills (about 3,000 thus far), and has even started committee meetings.

In the midst of what was looking to be a long hearing in the Senate Committee on Finance, as they officially opened discussion on the state’s two-year $280 billion budget, new chair, Joan Huffman (R-Houston), suddenly announced that, in view of...

Well it’s been 17 days since the 140-day legislative session kicked off. And what can I say about the 88th Legislative Session?

Here we take a look at three of the most impactful pieces of environmental state legislation of the last 10 years to illustrate that good things come to those who fight together.

Get those presents bought and wrapped cause on January 10th, it’s deja vu all over again. That’s right, the 88th Texas Legislative Session begins with a whole new batch of bills - some good, some bad, and some outright ugly.